Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-01-12

CONTENTS

[01] PASOK leader: The elections' wager is the country's course in the
next years

[02] Potami leader Theodorakis says his party will win third place in
upcoming general elections

[01] PASOK leader: The elections' wager is the country's course in the
next years

ANA/MPA---PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos at a live TV press conference
on Sunday said that "the national elections' wager is not who will
govern but the country's course in the next years".

Venizelos noted that the question is if we will take a step forwards
to exit the crisis and the memorandum and enter into the new phase and
into normalcy or we will make many steps backwards and everything that
we succeeded with the people's sacrifices will be lost "The question is
if stability and progress or uncertainty and retreat will prevail".

He said that the government on January 25 will hand over the country
intact an beyond the importance who will be first or second in the
elections more important is who will be third and will have the third
mandate and will play the role of the guarantor of the national and not
the governmental stability.

The third party will have the third mandate and it is very important to
have been tested and to have the experience to call the citizens to ask
themselves who will be the persons that will go to negotiate.

Venizelos also referred to Sunday's rally in Paris in the name of the
democratic civilisation, against the blind hatred, terrorism and absurdity
and expressed his support to the French society.

[02] Potami leader Theodorakis says his party will win third place in
upcoming general elections

ANA/MPA---Potami party will win the third place in the January 25
general elections, its leader Stavros Theodorakis on Sunday said during
the central pre-election rally in Thessaloniki.

Theodorakis also noted that it would be a shame for democracy if Golden
Dawn won the third place in the elections.

He also attacked on SYRIZA, New Democracy and PASOK. More specifically, he
said that while SYRIZA is accusing Potami of not having clear positions,
"it does not know whether Greece will use the euro or the drachma in the
summer." He added that SYRIZA members have no answer to the question
of how they will find the funds to pay the debt, the salaries and the
pensions, if they "break" with the lenders.

Asked whether Potami will support SYRIZA or New Democracy after
the elections, he said he will support neither party. Potami will
support Greece, if it needs to, it will become the catalyst of
understanding. Potami does not claim government positions, but seeks
to have power in the Parliament so as to ensure that worthy and honest
people will be placed in key governmental and state positions.

Regarding migration policy, he said "no to Mr Samaras fear" and "no to
open borders of Mr Tsipras." He asked for a single European confrontation
of the problem with closed borders, European asylum for refugees and
rights for migrants.